ORDER BY DATE showing NULLS first then most recent dates

Question

I have a stored procedure which executes a select statement. I would like my results ordered by a date field and display all records with NULL dates first and then the most

Answer 1

Standard SQL (ISO/IEC 9075-2:2003 or later - 2008) provides for:

ORDER BY SomeColumn NULLS FIRST

Most DBMS do not actually support this yet, AFAIK.